Leading mutual fund managers are tempering their investments in volatile emerging markets by monitoring political and economic developments on a daily basis.
Through the third quarter, the sector yielded an 18% return, which makes it far and away the industry's hotspot. The foreign markets more than doubled the performance of U.S. funds in the third quarter.
Todd Henry, a portfolio specialist with
Latin American funds were up 29% in the third quarter. The yearly return is 45%, and a steady 13% for the ten-year period.
Although Japan is not an emerging market, its recent performance puts it on par with Latin America. In the third quarter, Japanese stocks returned 18%, despite their puny 1.24% ten-year return.
Russian oil stocks and Turkish bank stocks are reportedly the right ways to go long-term, experts say.
Henry said his firm advises emerging market novices to choose a global fund first.
"[We] would encourage investors with no exposure to them at all to make their first step into a global portfolio instead of a regional one. That way, if the fund's portfolio managers have concern about Latin America, they can shift some money to an entirely different part of the world."
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